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tales |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Tales \Ta"les\, n. [L., pl of talis such (persons).] (Law) a pl Persons added to a jury, commonly from those in or about the courthouse, to make up any deficiency in the number of jurors regularly summoned, being like or such as the latter. --Blount. Blackstone. b syntactically sing. The writ by which such persons are summoned. {Tales book}, a book containing the names of such as are admitted of the tales. --Blount. --Craig. {Tales de circumstantibus} [L.], such or the like from those standing about
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